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The United States Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring that food, cosmetics, medicine, medical devices, and radiation-emitting products are safe for consumer consumption or use. The safety and wholesomeness of food, as well as safe levels of pesticide residues, are subject to FDA standards. The FDA also routinely examines blood bank operations to ensure the purity of the nation's blood supply. The purity and effectiveness of biologicals (medical preparations made from living organisms and their products), such as insulin and vaccines, are also regulated.

Complaints can be sent to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and from there the complaints will be referred to the appropriate state.

San Francisco District (HQ and Lab) phone number has recorded instructions for filing complaint on food, drugs, or cosmetics. Offers access to consumer education, regulated industry inquiry, product recall or reporting, and also product information requests:

US Customs Service enforces immigration laws and regulates and inspects all items being imported into U.S. Customs cooperates with 65 separate agencies to enforce laws and regulations for 600 categories of items. Customs will hold any item for that agency's inspection.